Marty Meehan Quotes

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security.

I helped to restore America's leadership.

States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

It is essential that America's word be good. And so I know that this campaign has caused some questioning and worries on the part of many leaders across the globe. I've talked with a number of them. But I want to - on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

If nobody trusts you as president, then you can't get anything done.

The worst thing you can do is try to manipulate or control perceptions. It's impossible, and when you are found out the result is disastrous. Better to be transparent and play well with others so that when bad things happen you have a reservoir of good will to bank on.

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

No commission created in this town has automatic credibility. You have to earn it.

There is one condition for us to have healthy relations with the United States. It's called respect.

Neutrality is not like a simple mathematical formula which has only to be announced and demonstrated in order to be believed and respected. It has in fact always been one of the difficult problems …. Instead of earning the respect and goodwill of both belligerents it is regarded by both with hatred and contempt.

National image ... prestige among other nations ... It was the main purpose of the civil space program.

I will never break the word of a prince spoken in a public place, for my honor's sake.

No government any more than an individual will long be respected, without being truly respectable.

The power of example is America’s greatest power in the world.

Your reputation is still the most important thing that you've got.

If a public figure tells a whopping lie once in his life, it'll haunt him into his grave. If he lies morning, noon and night, it will become almost impossible to remember any one particular lie.